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UPDATE: Brooklet couple killed in afternoon crash on Savannah's I-516

Two people were killed and three others injured in a multi-vehicle wreck that crippled traffic throughout much of Savannah Friday afternoon.

Savannah-Chatham police shut down Interstate 516 between Veteran’s Parkway and Montgomery Street after the driver of a pickup truck traveling eastbound lost control, swerved over the median, and struck two vehicles, said Julian Miller, police spokesman.

The police department’s Major Accident Investigation Team determined the 22-year-old driver of the Ford F-250 was driving at a high rate of speed before he lost control of the vehicle that rolled over into a car before crashing into a westbound SUV carrying a family from Brooklet, Miller said.

Stephen Carroll Joyner, 29, the Toytoa Rav 4’s driver, and his wife, Camie Barnes Joyner, 31, died at the scene of the about 2:15 p.m. crash. Their 3-year-old daughter was taken to Memorial University Medical Center where she was listed Friday night in serious but stable condition.

The driver of the F-250 was also listed in stable but serious condition, Miller said. The 47-year-old driver of a motorcycle who crashed trying to avoid the initial wreck was treated for his injuries at Memorial and released.

The wreck shut down I-516 for nearly three hours, forcing motorists to seek alternate routes and creating congestion throughout the city’s surface roads even after the highway was reopened just after 5 p.m.

Late Friday night MAIT was continuing its investigation into the wreck, Miller said.